Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul
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are supported the roots that produce the fruits, seeds and leaves
that give and conserve life. On its surface are born and raised
the animals that are vital foods. Thus the Earth is mother like
humans".
In the cosmovision of the Guarani nation, to walk is powerfully
interrelated with the word. In Guarani rites, the Word sacramentally
"becomes seated" in the symbolic gesture of walking. The prayers
and songs with the Word are ritualization of the Guarani journey/
walk, is the way of being Guarani. Walking is the basic movement of
the communitarian dance in rituals for recalling the history of their
permanent quest for the Land without Evils that is memorized in
their prayers, chants and dances. Graciela Chamorro notes that
the "founding metaphor of Guarani choreography of songs and
prayers are successive exoduses ("Seeking the Land without Evils")
that Tupi Guaraní groups protagonize, whether for economic,
ecological or religious motivations...".
INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WISDOM - LAND-TO
WALK AND RECIPROCITY
We see that the Guarani world was made out of divine wisdom
(Namandu raised the sun in his breast). Therefore, the entire
creation contains divine wisdom. Destiny in equilibrium (symbol of
the cross) in the coexistence of all creation manifests this divine
wisdom and needs to be accepted and respected by humans, part
of this creation. The earth and the Guarani are intimately united,
this being expressed in a saying coined by them: "we are born
joined". For this reason there exists a circular and interdependent
relationship between the two. The Guarani care for the land and
the land cares for them. The Guarani live thanks to what the earth
produces, recycles, reproduces and regenerates:
"We were born, we were generated with the earth at the same
moment, that is, at the beginning of the Earth, we also began to
exist, together we were created."
The Guarani itinerancy, their walking, on the one hand has a root
in the economy, in that after five or six years of planting, the land
is tired. However, on the other hand it has to do with their religion,
because if there is scarcity in a place and as a consequence this
informs human coexistence, then there is a prophet among them
who calls for their rising up and marching to the land without
evils, because the place is full of evils. The walk has to be seen
with fulfillment of the socio-religious system; they are passing
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